With a comic sensibility and sense of cosmic wonder, The exhibition titled Planets of the Universe presents an idiosyncratic narrative as a type of rock-origin story. Painting, sculpture and photo-works feature stratified rock bodies in colourful terrains. Adopting anthropomorphic form, rocks evolve in relation to their environment – assembling, breaking down, piling up. While paintings feature rocks in conversation with landscapes; their ceramic counterparts act as solo protagonists. Cenotaphs, markers, or standing stones are evoked by the lone, upright stance of these sculptures, while allegorical story-lines are suggested through their human-animal forms.

Planets of the Universe, Exhibition Installation 2023, United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

Planets of the Universe, 43.5″ x 52″, oil on shaped canvas, 2023

 

Sky Master, 43.5″ x 52″, oil on shaped canvas, 2023

 

Laws of their own Nature & One from Another (Left to right) 16″ x 20″ each, oil on canvas, 2023

 

Study (Rock Cave), 10″ x 7″, framed archival pigment print, 2023

 

Study (Rock Face), 10″ x 7″, framed archival pigment print, 2023

Study (Rock Bodies), 10″ x 7″, framed archival pigment print, 2023

 

Infinity + Folly – Trumpeter, 23″ x 9″ x 9″, coloured porcelain and stoneware, 2023